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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1893] Plato, Crito, vi. p. 46.
Chapter IX.—Human Knowledge Necessary for the Understanding of the Scriptures.
[1894] The empirics were a class of physicians who held practice to be the one thing essential.
[1895] Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Septuagint and Hebrew both differ from the reading here.
Chapter X.—To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well.
[1897] [“Eat it according to reason.” Spiritual food does not stultify reason, nor conflict with the evidence of the senses.]
[1898] [This constant appeal to the Scriptures, noteworthy.]
[1901] A victory disastrous to the victor and the vanquished.
[1902] Ps. xlviii. 10, 11, Sept.
[1903] Ecclus. xix. 22.
[1906] [Revelation is complete, and nothing new to be expected. Gal. i. 8, 9.]
[1907] Plato’s Politicus, p. 261 E.
[1908] Plato’s Theætetus, p. 184 C.
[1910] The story of Œdipus being a myth.
[1911] The possessor of true divine knowledge
“[Fit audience find though few.” Paradise Lost, book. vii. 31. Dante has the same thought. Pindar’s φωνᾶντα συνετοῖσν, Olymp., ii. 35.]
[1913] [Here I am sorry I cannot supply the proper reference. Clement shows his Attic prejudice in adding the epithet, here and elsewhere (Bœotian), which Pindar felt so keenly, and resents more than once. Olymp., vi. vol. i. p. 75. Ed. Heyne, London, 1823.]
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